Upon departing from the band Marilyn
Manson in 1993, Gidget Gein found himself in
an unusual place. Travelling between Florida and New York, he
was pursuing new
musical outlets while the very beginnings of his art career were
taking root. Often
these two paths combined in his self promotional art pieces.
Taking cues from the
original graffiti scene, Gein set to the task of putting his
name (and that of his band,
The Dali Gaggers) on every wall and every street corner. His
DIY methods nod
to Warhol and Basquait while appropriating pop images into a
new context.
Street Art and Street Trash were synonymous in his breakdown
of the established
art world as his aesthetic evolved conceptually.

For this exhibit, Hyaena has acquired a collection of Gidget
Gein's original street art.
This is early work that shows the beginning of his use of screen
printing and stencils,
tools that he would make use of his entire career from his printmaking
to his ambitious
Gollywood fashion line to his UnPop art. Now that Street Art
is a mutli-million dollar
commodity, and your Branwashes, Faireys, and Bankskys have become
acceptable
outlaws, Gidget's work reminds us that basically Street Art is
just propaganda
and Gidget loved propaganda.